Dan’s blog of black and white scrapyard photos reminded me of a short movie I viewed online a while back. The movie was called What’s the Big Hurry? and was produced by Sid Davis in the early seventies. It was meant to be a driver safety course “scared straight”-type movie but I enjoyed trying to identify all the great cars in the junkyard destined for the compactor and eventually the shredder. Plenty of hokey-sounding dialogue including skids and crashes in the audio portion of the film too. You can watch it at this link:

And be sure to check out Sid Davis’ other instructional films from the fifties and sixties on You Tube like The Strange Ones, The Bottle and the Throttle, Big Man on Campus, What Made Sammy Speed, Alcohol is Dynamite and Dangerous Stranger. BTW Sid Davis was a movie stand-in for John Wayne, and The Duke funded his first PSA-style movie.

Hi, I’m writing about old cars in my neighborhood at Sayago, Montevideo Uruguay ( but now I’m living at Barcelona, Spain ).
Could I use your ford prefect image of this post to illustrate my own new post ?
I’ll put a link directing people to your blog if you say me ok.
Thanks,
Gabriel